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SUMMARY:All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference
DESCRIPTION:All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference \nOctober 26-28\, 2022 | Santa Cruz\, CA\nThere is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle pressing social issues. Indeed\, the complexity and scale of our social ills require not only inter-disciplinary approaches\, but recognizing the value of community-based knowledge and its potential contribution to developing solutions to pressing problems. \nJoin Us!\nWe are hosting an in-person conference and celebration of community-university partnerships on October 26-28\, 2022\, in beautiful Santa Cruz\, CA. This event is organized by the Institute for Social Transformation and URBAN\, and THI is a co-sponsor. \nBe a part of this 3-day national conference that focuses on sharing strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for the truly equitable co-production of knowledge. We will explore the dynamic links between campus-community partnerships\, hands-on research\, and student-community engagement. Together we can build partnerships for change. #knowledge4justice \nRegister \nUPDATE September 7\, 2022: Registration is now CLOSED. Thank you for the interest in joining us for All-In! We have now reached capacity and are looking forward to a powerful and productive conference. \nProgram Description \nVariously known as Research-Practice Partnerships\, Community-based Research\, Participatory Action Research\, or Engaged Scholarship\, the field is developing new approaches that share a commitment to creating truly equitable partnerships across all aspects of the research process. \nThe All-In conference will bring together university scholars\, community-based practitioners\, undergraduate and graduate students\, community members and organizations\, foundations\, organizers\, artists\, and activists to share stories\, strategies\, practices\, and solutions for building innovative partnerships for critical collaborative research and social change. \nWe will also discuss methods for building institutional support for collaborative research\, how to strategically leverage relations with collaborative partners\, and how to build cross-sector networks for practitioners\, students\, and early career scholars. \nSchedule & Program \nThe conference will take place over 3 days on October 26-28\, 2022\, in beautiful Santa Cruz\, CA. Click here for the schedule and program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/all-in-co-creating-knowledge-for-justice-conference/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. \nSilvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator\, facilitator and consultant\, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections\, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation\, social change\, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College\, she developed and teaches “Building an inner sanctuary\,” that fosters the cultivation of inner/outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality\, self-leadership\, healing justice\, and fostering resilience and care in the community. \nRegister by October 18th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/disrupting-imposter-phenomenon-from-the-inside-out/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T121500
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SUMMARY:Archive as Offering  – Grace L. Sanders Johnson
DESCRIPTION:This talk names the layered applications\, quotidian quality\, and refusals of physical\, psychological\, and archival violence against Haitian women during the US occupation (1915-1934). Told alongside the story of a teenage girl’s life and death\, the talk ultimately considers experimental historical practices as an opportunity to intervene in the presumed teleology of Black women’s lives through the practice of archival offering. \nGrace L. Sanders Johnson is a historian\, visual artist\, and assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of study include modern Caribbean history\, transnational feminisms\, oral history\, and environmental humanities. Sanders Johnson has worked with various archival projects including Concordia University’s Oral History Project Histoire de Vie Haiti Group (Montreal) and was a 2020-2021 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Fellow. Her most recent work can be found in several journals including Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (2022)\, American Anthropologist (2022)\, and Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (2018). She is also the author of the forthcoming book White Gloves\, Black Nation: Women\, Citizenship\, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti (University of North Carolina Press\, 2023). \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-grace-l-sanders-johnson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T190000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit\, Orwell's Roses
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit to the store for a discussion and signing of her most recent book\, Orwell’s Roses (in paperback October 18th). This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nBookshop’s head book buyer\, Melinda\, says: “The gift of Rebecca Solnit is that while she writes about Orwell and his roses\, she also writes beyond them\, touching on tangential subjects with an effortless grace that is far-ranging and ever-connecting. Coming upon the surviving roses that George Orwell planted in 1936\, Solnit writes a captivating series of essays that explores Orwell’s life\, the horticulture and literature of roses\, and somehow both remarkably and classically Solnit\, how one finds balance in the beauty and struggle of 20th century humanity and today.” \nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence and the nonfiction A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-solnit-orwells-roses/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T131000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! \nAndrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, master’s in English literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder\, and an all but dissertation in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College\, where she teaches English. Andrea is the director of The Writing Center and of its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, one of the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives of the Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) Graduate Pathways program (Activity 6). Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature\, and her work is deeply invested in social justice. \nRegister by October 19th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/psychology-of-writing/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers:  Addie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Addie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks. \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nADDIE TSAI (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at the College of William & Mary. They also teach in Goddard College’s MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, Kenyon Review\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, the New Guard Machigonne Fiction Prize and residencies at the Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. Micah directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info at micahperks.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-addie-tsai/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T120000
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SUMMARY:Tariq Thachil – Who Governs in India's Small Towns? Notes from Rajasthan's Nagar Palikas
DESCRIPTION:“Who Governs in India’s Small Towns” will take place on October 28\, 2022 from 10am to 12pm PST\, and is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures.  Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tariq-thachil-who-governs-in-indias-small-towns-notes-from-rajasthans-nagar-palikas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T170000
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SUMMARY:Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:*Charla en español* “Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/historias-de-accion-accion-comunitaria-frente-al-racismo-en-america-latina-con-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Ching Kwan Lee - Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
DESCRIPTION:How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret the recent turmoil in Hong Kong as a political and ideological struggle between a liberal\, capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign. This talk broadens the plane of analysis to argue that the Hong Kong saga is part of a larger phenomenon called “global China\,” conceptualized as a double movement. On the one hand\, Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms — economic statecraft\, patron- clientelism and symbolic domination – around the world\, including Hong Kong. On the other\, this Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa\, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. \n \nChing Kwan Lee is a professor of sociology at UCLA. She is the author of three award-winning monographs on contemporary China’s turn to capitalism: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998)\, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt  (2007)\, and The Specter of Global China: Politics\, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). Her latest publication is Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier (2022)\, an open access book from Cambridge University Press. She is working on an ethnographic and historical monograph about Hong Kong’s decolonization struggle\, with a particular focus on the 2019 uprising.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hong-kong-global-chinas-restive-frontier/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T170000
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SUMMARY:Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz - “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
DESCRIPTION:This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings\, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia\, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed\, to the ilustrado-led Propaganda Movement’s political argumentation against Spain\, and to the political mobilization and organizing of the Katipunan and the First Philippine Republic. It incorporates the “periphery” into our understanding of Pan-Asianism to correct our exclusively intellectual historical and Northeast-Asia-centric understandings of Pan-Asianism. It shows that the revolutionary First Philippine Republic’s foreign collaboration represents the first instance of fellow Pan-Asianists lending material aid toward anti-colonial revolution against a Western power (rather than overthrow of a domestic dynasty) and harnessing transnational Pan-Asian networks of support\, activism\, and association toward doing so. \nOriginally from the Philippines\, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge\, in the UK\, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Prior to Cambridge\, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian and International History at Yale University. Her first book\, Asian Place\, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution\, 1887-1912\, published by Columbia University Press in June 2020\, charts the emplotment of ‘place’ in the proto-national thought and revolutionary organising of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers. Her broad research interests center on global intellectual history and Southeast Asian environmental\, cultural\, and social history. \nFree and open to the campus community and the public. This event is presented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicole-cuunjieng-aboitiz-the-idea-asia-in-turn-of-the-twentieth-century-philippine-political-thought-and-action/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T190000
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SUMMARY:George Saunders\, Liberation Day
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book\, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power\, ethics\, and justice\, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. \nThis event is cosponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3 and will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz. \nGuests can purchase tickets here. Each ticket includes admission to the event plus one signed hardcover copy of Liberation Day. \nGeorge Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books\, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations\, by the Way; Tenth of December\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline\, Pastoralia\, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-liberation-day/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95061
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
DESCRIPTION:Learn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises\, job reclassifications\, and title and responsibilities changes. \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over twelve years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as associate director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctoral degree in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \nRegister by October 25th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interviewing-and-negotiating-the-job-offer/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T121500
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SUMMARY:Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
DESCRIPTION:This talk describes a new book project\, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and geography of the world of the Indian Ocean at the surface—the topic of my first book\, Writing Ocean Worlds—the new book explores what possibilities exist\, in this ancient and south-centered oceanic world\, for apprehending\, narrating and imagining what lies beneath. It aims to do so by taking as a structuring framework the ocean’s five vertical zones—the sunlight\, the twilight\, the midnight\, the abyss\, and the trenches—in the context of warming planetary seas. \nCharne Lavery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Research Associate based at WISER\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa. She explores ocean writing of the global South in a time of environmental change. Her first monograph\, Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English\, appeared in 2021. With Isabel Hofmeyr\, she co-directs the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charne_lavery/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T150000
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SUMMARY:A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NYU Libraries – Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker’s most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. \n \nCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \nThe Communist Party banned lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as “degenerates.” It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s\, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia\, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years\, and had over 17\,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s\, She has published several books including\, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis\, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work\, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience\, and a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nJudith Smith is Professor of American Studies Emerita at University of Massachusetts Boston\, where she taught cultural history since 1945 and history of media and film. She is the author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist\, Public Radical (2014) and Visions of Belonging: Family Stories\, Popular Culture\, and Postwar Democracy\, 1940-1960 (2004). Her published essays explored how writers on the left addressed popular audiences on radio in the 1930s and 1940s\, live television drama in the 1950s\, and in film from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s. She served as researcher/consultant for the recent documentary\, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry (2018). \nLive closed captioning will be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62746/
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SUMMARY:Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The November 2nd “Steppe Immunity” talk will be given by Christian Sorace from Colorado College. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christian-sorace-steppe-immunity/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City\, 1920s-1940s
DESCRIPTION:Using an array of primary sources\, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor\, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital\, an insane asylum\, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist state between the 1920s and 40s. Within and across these institutional spaces\, health professionals contributed to the production of medicalized scientific knowledge and cared for and socially regulated racialized\, pathologized Puerto Ricans. Penitentiary “living dead” (incarcerated people)\, in particular\, were subjected to research and received treatment\, but also provided health labor that put them at risk while powering the sanitary city and nurturing its inhabitants. Crucially\, however\, some prisoners managed to exploit the unthinkable openness of the complex\, revealing in the process that the living dead could only be buried alive for so long. \n \nThis talk is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom conference ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alberto-ortiz-diaz-carceral-care-health-professionals-and-the-living-dead-in-colonial-puerto-ricos-sanitary-city-1920s-1940s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:“Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-of-action-community-activism-in-the-face-of-racism-in-latin-america-with-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - WordPress Website Design
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nJason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, WA\, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer\, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017. \nRegister by October 26th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nSeating will be first come\, first served. Registration required. \nNatasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry\, Monument (2018)\, which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006)\, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000)\, which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast\, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Beinecke Library at Yale\, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of Conversations: Power Forged\, the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nParking information: The Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \nPurchase both poets works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Catherine Segurson\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest: phren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” This years contest will be judged by Farnaz Fatemi. For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 27th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/natasha-trethewey-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Madhavi Murty Reading Group - Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
DESCRIPTION:The THI research cluster “Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” presents a reading group on Madhavi Murty’s new book “Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India.” Madhavi Murty will be in conversation with Radhika Prasad. \nStories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism; both backed by the authority of the state and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of the two. More importantly\, the book reveals\, through its focus on India and its complex media landscape that this intersection has a narrative form\, which author\, Madhavi Murty labels spectacular realism. The book shows that the intersection of neoliberalism with authoritarian nationalism is strengthened by the circulation of stories about “emergence\,” “renewal\,” “development\,” and “mobility” of the nation and its people. It studies stories told through film\, journalism\, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture. \nMoving between mediascapes to create an archive of popular culture\, Murty advances our understanding of political economy through material that is often seen as inconsequential\, namely the popular cultural story. These stories stoke our desires (e.g. for wealth)\, scaffold our instincts (e.g. for a strong leadership) and shape our values. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP by emailing: VernacularsUCSC@gmail.com. \n“Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” is a THI Cluster that focuses on questions of movement (both conceptual and physical) across regions. It seeks to re-imagine the vocabularies\, concepts\, and history of travel from the Global South\, centering south-south relationships and non-European languages as vessels for reflecting on the political ramifications of mobility and fixity. Co-PIs: Muriam Davis and Nidhi Mahajan. \nMadhavi Murty is associate professor in the Feminist Studies department and an affiliate of CRES and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests center on popular media\, nationalism\, globalization\, feminism\, postcolonial theory\, cultural theory\, and modalities of difference such as race\, caste\, and gender. \nRadhika Prasad is a PhD candidate in the Literature Department\, with a Directed Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Her work analyzes language politics in post-independence India\, by exploring the embedment of cultural imaginaries in languages. Her dissertation contextualizes the establishment of Hindi as an official language in India within Indian nation-formation and the India-Pakistan Partition\, and examines the incommensurability of the official and literary idioms of the language.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madhavi-murty-reading-group-stories-that-bind-political-economy-and-culture-in-new-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox - Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-necromancies-with-professor-renee-fox-discussion-of-dracula-beginning-chap-16/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
DESCRIPTION:Join us for “Telling Your Research Story Through Comics” on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Featuring: Felicia Lopez (UCM)\, Carolyn Jennings (UCM)\, Jordan Collver\, and Pino Cao. Register here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/telling-your-research-story-through-comics/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
DESCRIPTION:This reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \n \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom meeting ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-reading-group-with-alberto-ortiz-diaz/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Humanizing Technology Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:The Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is a Humanities Division initiative targeted to early career Engineering students but open to all UCSC undergraduates. The program features small class sizes and GE courses that examine the goals and impacts of technology in various ways. To earn the certificate\, students take three of the five lower-division Humanities courses listed below. There are no prerequisites\, and you can take the courses in any order you choose. Each course fulfills a different GE requirement: \nCurious about where to find GE Humanities courses about technology? Come join the Humanizing Technology Certificate Program! \nHUMN 15 Ethics and Technology Perspectives on Technology GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nThis course explores ethical\, social\, and political issues raised by existing and emerging technologies. HUMN 25 Humans and Machines Textual Analysis GE\, offered Winter and Summer 2023. This course explores the tension between humans and machines\, between people and objects increasingly resembling them.\n\nHUMN 35 Language Technology Cross-Cultural Analysis GE\, offered Winter 2023 \n\nThis course provides a comparative\, historical framing of the development of communication technologies and practices\, considering a variety of cultures and societies across human history.\n\nHUMN 45 Race and Technology Ethnicity and Race GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nThis course examines how the construction of race connects with constructs in science and technology.\n\nHUMN 55 Technologies of Representation Interpreting Arts and Media GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nFocusing on technologies of representation like photographs\, selfies\, and surveillance data\, this course explores how viewers and makers derive meaning from images and how power operates in their creation and circulation.\n\nFunded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Interested in learning more? See our website for details: humanities.ucsc.edu/academics/hum-tech
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanizing-technology-launch-event/
LOCATION:Crown College Plaza\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture - Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:In 1942\, at the outset of World War II\, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The following year\, the War Relocation Authority had the task of determining the loyalty of their inmates in order to release them for productive normalized lives outside camp. A loyalty questionnaire was distributed to assess “loyalty.” While many of the questions seemed innocuous\, two questions in particular\, 27 and 28\, about willingness to serve in the US military and forswearing allegiance to the Japanese Emperor\, were confusing and divisive within the incarcerated communities. The answering of these two questions created rifts within families and friends\, with traumatic divisions that resonate to this day. \nRegister to attend in person \nRegister to attend virtually \nComplimentary event parking will be available in lots 115/116. Please follow event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will help assist you. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Sansei and Sensibility\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-fall-2022-emeriti-lecture-questions-27-28-loyalty-and-japanese-american-incarceration/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Slide Design Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used\, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop\, review this slide design page\, including viewing the video by Sonya. \nSonya Newlyn received her M.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her B.A. in English literature from Emory University\, where she also minored in anthropology. In addition to organizing professional development classes\, workshops\, panels\, and the two certificate programs\, she also organizes Grad Slam\, the Graduate Symposium\, and the Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Ceremony. \nRegister by November 1st for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slide-design-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Mark Massoud – The Power of Positionality
DESCRIPTION:What is the impact on and influence of the researcher in their scholarship? Drawing in part on Mark’s empirical research and professional experience\, this talk investigates the benefits and burdens of positionality. Positionality is the disclosure of how an author’s racial\, gender\, class\, or other self-identifications\, experiences\, and privileges influence research methods. A statement of positionality in a research article can enhance the validity of its empirical data and its theoretical contribution. However\, such self-disclosure puts scholars in a vulnerable position\, and those most likely to reveal how their positionality shapes their research are women\, ethnic minorities\, or both. At this stage of the field’s methodological development\, the burdens of positionality are being carried unevenly by a tiny minority of researchers. Massoud invites scholars to redress this imbalance by embracing expressions of positionality. \nMark Fathi Massoud is a Politics professor and the director of the Legal Studies Program here at UCSC. He also serves as affiliated faculty with the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of two books that address the interplay of law\, politics\, and religion — and he is currently editing a volume on positionality. Mark’s most recent book is Shari’a\, Inshallah (Cambridge University Press 2021). Shari’a\, Inshallah received four awards: the Hart-SLSA Book Prize from the Socio-Legal Studies Association\, the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Religion\, the Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism from American Political Science Association — and it was a Finalist for the PROSE Award for the best book in government and politics published last year\, from the Association of American Publishers. Mark is also the author of Law’s Fragile State (Cambridge University Press 2013)\, which earned awards from the American Political Science Association and the Law and Society Association. Mark holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-massoud-the-power-of-positionality/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chih-ming Wang - Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels
DESCRIPTION:Examining Ha Jin’s immigrant novels in the crossfires of US-China competition\, this talk proposes post/Cold War entanglements as a critical frame for reconsidering Asian American studies today. It argues that attention to Chineseness as a political\, rather than cultural\, construct is more urgent than ever. Ha Jin’s emphasis on immigration as freedom in his novels offers an opportune occasion for examining how Cold War geopolitics persists in and through Chinese America\, and how the Chinese American immigrant subjectivity may be politicized to fuel anti-China politics today\, especially in the context of US-China rivalry. His rearticulation of diasporic Chineseness based on the principle of freedom and individualism in the shadow of Global China encourages us to grapple with the poignancy of identity as a form of coercion and to reexamine the Cold War legacy of Asian America. \n \nChih-ming Wang is associate research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute (2021-22) and a visiting research fellow at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He works in both transpacific American literature and inter-Asia cultural studies\, concerned with the interplay of literature and geopolitics\, and the colonial modernity of knowledge production in East Asia. He is the chief-editor of Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies and the author of two books: Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (UHP\, 2013) and Re-Articulation: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan (Linking\, 2021). He also co-edited with Yu-Fang Cho a special issue on “The Chinese Factor” for American Quarterly (2017). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Multiple Returning: Post/Cold War Entanglements and Asian American Literature.” \nPresented by the Transnational China Research Hub.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chih-ming-wang-retelling-chinese-stories-in-the-era-of-global-china-on-ha-jins-immigrant-novels/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
DESCRIPTION:A vexing problem for academics is burnout: the experience of exhaustion\, cynicism\, and ineffectiveness that results from stretching across the gap between the ideals of your academic vocation and the reality of your academic job. Jonathan Malesic left his job as a tenured theology professor at a small liberal arts college after undergoing burnout over the course of several years. Since then\, he has published dozens of articles on work and burnout in academic journals and general-interest publications. He has also published a book on this topic\, The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (University of California Press\, 2022). In this workshop\, he will address what burnout is\, why academic workers are so vulnerable to it\, and how building more compassionate institutions can help prevent and heal academic burnout. \nIn addition to The End of Burnout\, Malesic has written about work and burnout for the New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Washington Post\, The Guardian\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Inside Higher Ed\, The Hedgehog Review\, and several academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia and has been the recipient of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisville Institute. His writing has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019\, 2020\, 2021) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2019). He teaches writing at Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas. \nRegister by November 2nd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/preventing-and-mitigating-burnout/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This is a talk about a book that is still being written. It begins and ends with a funeral. In between\, lies the story of the 60s generation in the Arab world. The funeral was that of Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser. His 1970 death was just another reminder of the weighty collective defeat of “the first Arabs”: the eminent generation born after WW I\, which had defined itself by its Arab ethnicity rather than religious faith and had fought to decolonize their society. Their dream was a dignified life but their lot ended up being a dehumanizing defeat. With the ultimate aim of offering a humanizing narrative of this generation struggle for life with dignity\, in this talk I offer preliminary thoughts on one of the most complex and rich experiments in the modern history of the Middle East. \nThis event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa. \nYoav Di-Capua is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin\, where he teaches modern Arab intellectual history. He is the author of Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt (University of California Press\, 2009) and No Exit: Arab Existentialism\, Jean Paul Sartre and Decolonization (University Press of Chicago\, 2018). Supported by the Guggenheim Foundation\, he is currently at work on The First Arabs: An Intimate History of Their Struggle for Dignity and The Aftermath of Defeat.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yoav-di-capua-reconsidering-the-60s-generation-in-the-arab-world-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife
DESCRIPTION:Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife\, a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of “Genre Queer/ Gender Queer Playground\,” Obsidian: Litrature and Arts in the African Diaspora\, guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson (moderator). \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nDuriel E. Harris is a writer\, performer\, artist\, and scholar. She is author of three critically acclaimed volumes of poetry\, including No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat\, 2017)\, Drag (2003)\, and Amnesiac: Poems (2010). Multi-genre works include the one-woman theatrical performance Thingification\, the video collaboration Speleology (2011)\, and the sound+image project “Blood Labyrinth.” Cofounder of The Black Took Collective\, Harris is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Illinois State University and Editor in Chief of the award-winning publishing platform Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. \nBakar Wilson’s poetry has appeared in The Vanderbilt Review\, The Lumberyard Radio Magazine\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology\, and The Ostrich Review\, among others. He has performed his work at the Bowery Poetry Club\, Poetry Project\, The Studio Museum of Harlem\, and the 2022 Whitney Biennial. A native of Memphis\, TN\, Bakar received his BA in English from Vanderbilt University and his MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. He is an Adjunct Lecturer of English and Creative Writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY. \nElizabeth Owuor is a writer\, vinyl collector\, DJ\, and freelance journalist who interrogates the archives of Black music history\, blending intimate narrative with the collective history of her people. Her nonfiction utilizes rare blues and soul music to examine cultural inheritance\, Black creative labor\, and the ways in which Blackness is constructed and consumed in the U.S. and Europe. She has spun her sounds of Black resistance on vinyl all around the globe and is co-founder of Black Rhythm Happening\, an evening dedicated to unearthing gems from the sonic vaults. A Tin House alumna\, her journalism has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and Germany’s Deutsche Welle. To keep the lights on\, she works as a copywriter in Silicon Valley. She pursued her Bachelors in Journalism from Emerson College and received a Master’s in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell\, Hedgebrook\, and the California Arts Council. \nfahima ife (they/she\, any or no pronoun) is a poet\, professor\, and editor based in Northern California and New Orleans. She is associate professor of Black Studies in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California Santa Cruz. In her creative/critical work and in the classes she teaches\, fahima considers 20th and 21st century experimental black aesthetics\, ecological poetry and poetics\, performance art\, intimacy\, and pleasure. fahima mostly produces poems\, lyrical essays\, and hybrid experimental works. She is author of Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press\, 2021)\, the forthcoming poetry collection\, Arrhythmia (press TBA\, 2023)\, and other works. She is at work on poems\, a music of our sensing here. She is a contributing editor at Tilted House press\, and with Ian U Lockaby\, co-edits the forthcoming journal LUCIUS. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and academic\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nov-10/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Listening\, Mentoring\, Coaching\, Advising
DESCRIPTION:Listening to understand represents an equally important half of effective oral communication to the other half\, delivery of the communication by spoken word. Listening well forms the essential communication base upon which to build the skills of mentoring\, coaching\, and advising. Listening well also aids your performance on a team and in any professional and personal relationship. Learn how to listen conscientiously and to mentor\, coach\, and advise with empathy. \nRegister by November 7th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/listening-mentoring-coaching-advising/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELED Dale Tomich - Capitalism and Slavery: The Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The November 15th “Capitalism and Slavery: The Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous” talk will be given by Dale Tomich from Binghamton University. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dale-tomich-capitalism-and-slavery-the-contemporaneity-of-the-non-contemporaneous/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled\, please stay tuned for a future date for this event. \nAccording to premodern elites\, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages\, sustenance\, more festival days\, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by premodern sumptuary laws\, focusing on luxury as a class of things. I focus on the act of luxuriating instead\, drawing out its embodied\, affective\, and tactical dimensions as a “structure of feeling.” I argue that a focus on luxuriating opens our thought to the political potential in the physical\, sensory\, and lived experience of the poor as they lay claim to enjoyment and abundance. \n \nDean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics\, currently working on a book manuscript Luxuriating in Democracy\, Abundance\, and the Enjoyment of Bodies Politic. He is the author of Appeals to Interest: Language and the Shaping of Political Agency and the editor of and contributor to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics\, Justice\, and Action. His other writings have appeared in journals including Political Theory\, Theory and Event\, Political Research Quarterly\, The New Political Science\, and The Arrow. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-dean-mathiowetz/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Patrick Radden Keefe\, Empire of Pain & Rogues
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe will visit Santa Cruz for a discussion about his most recent books Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (in paperback October 18th) and Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. Empire of Pain is a grand\, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family\, famed for their philanthropy\, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Rogues is a collecton of twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue that showcase Keefe’s work of a reporter at the top of his game. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n \n“A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. It’s highly entertaining\, of course\, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe’s fascination with what makes us human even when we’re at our most imperfect.” —Los Angeles Times \n“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book\, I read it. Every time he writes an article\, I read it … he’s a national treasure.” —Rachel Maddow \nPATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain\, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize\, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal\, and was named one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly. He’s also the author of two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. \nHis work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change\, an 8-part podcast series\, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War\, and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patrick-radden-keefe-empire-of-pain-rogues/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry\, Beth Au\, moderator of the panel\, and UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc\, all of whom have recently been hired by\, are currently working for\, or have recently worked for a CCC. \nRegister by November 9th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/california-community-colleges-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Living Writers:  Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nTerri Witek is the author of 7 books of poems\, most recently The Rattle Egg (2021); Something’s Missing in This Museum is forthcoming in 2023. Recent work has been featured in two international anthologies: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (2021)\, and in the WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry (2021). She has collaborated with Brazilian artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) since 2005–their works together include museum and gallery shows\, performance and site-specific projects featured internationally in New York\, Seoul\, Miami\, Lisbon\, Rio de Janeiro\, and Valencia. Witek holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University\, and with Lopes teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson’s low-residency MFA of the Americas. Their collaborative projects are represented by The Liminal\, Valencia Spain. terriwitek.com \nRachel Nelson\, PhD\, is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and adjunct professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at University of California\, Santa Cruz. In her curatorial projects and research\, Nelson explores the transformative potential of art and culture. She is co-curator of the group exhibition Barring Freedom (2020-21)\, which looks at how artists engage the racialized histories and presents of the U.S. criminal legal system. Other curatorial projects include Bodies at the Borders with Carlos Motta\, Solitary Garden with jackie sumell and Tim Young\, and Visualizing Abolition\, an ongoing art and education program. Nelson has also has published widely\, including in Journal of Curatorial Studies\, Brooklyn Rail\, NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts\, among others.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-terri-witek-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Kate Stone
DESCRIPTION:Kate Stone\, Univ of Potsdam\, Germany \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-1/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221118T130000
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SUMMARY:Postponed - Meet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book
DESCRIPTION:This event is going to be rescheduled. \nMeet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book \nFaculty and graduate students from all UC campuses are welcome. The discussion will be geared towards those completing their first academic manuscripts. Q&A to follow. \n  \n \n  \n \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNiels Hooper\, Executive Editor\, University of California Press \nMargo Irvin\, Acquisitions Editor\, Stanford University Press \nKathleen McDermott\, Executive Editor for History\, Harvard University Press \nEric Porter\, Professor in History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \n  \nPresented by the Institute of Arts and Humanities\, UC San Diego
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meet-the-editors-a-guide-to-submitting-and-publishing-your-academic-book/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221122T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221122T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Academic Publishing
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. \nHow do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? \nAs scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC Library\, Martha Stuit provides author services\, including for theses and dissertations\, publishing academic articles and books\, open access\, and copyright. She also serves as the library’s liaison to the Graduate Division and graduate students. Prior to becoming a librarian\, she was a journalist. Martha has an M.S. in information from the University of Michigan. \nErich van Rijn is interim executive director at the University of California Press where he leads the press’s book and journal publishing operations. Erich has been with the University of California Press since 1997 and has held positions in marketing\, sales\, operations\, and finance. Prior to joining the press he held positions in marketing at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers. \nRegister by November 14th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/academic-publishing/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221123T121500
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis – A Journey through Border Spaces of the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:The border is the shared topos of the anthropologist\, the historian\, the archaeologist\, the artist\, the musician and the poet\, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future  with the present\, the inside with the outside\, the particular with the general. Borders are the meeting points of mind and body\, ideas and senses\, science and literature. Any discourse therefore on the border is a discourse on dialogue—a dialogue that is meant to decenter. \nUnder conditions of globalization and trans-national processes\, where there is no longer an inside and outside\, earlier relationships of communication with the different others\, human or nonhuman\, present or absent\, have changed. We rather exist in a pseudo-culture of sameness\, much of which is simulated by the media. \nIn this lecture she explores border and trauma spaces through a journey of antiphonic witnessing and memory as a way of (re)establishing a self-reflexive relationship with the past that changes the positioning of the present. This has been the focus of my ethnographic work based on 30 years of conscious and unconscious fieldwork\, writing\, teaching and practicing multimedia public anthropology in various locales of the world. In this process\, I reflect on my own antinomic subject position in my discipline as a so called “native\,” or “indigenous” ethnographer and also as a diasporic\, American-trained\, post-Boasian anthropologist. \nProfessor C. Nadia Seremetakis is best known for her acclaimed books The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity and The Last Word: Women Death & Divination in Inner Mani\, based on long term fieldwork in urban and rural Greece.  She has written seven books in both English and Greek\, including poetry\, and several of her articles are translated in other languages. Her recent book Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic exploration of the quotidian in process; it weaves past and new fieldwork experiences as she journeys from Greece to Vienna\, Edinburgh\, Albania\, Ireland\, New York and beyond\, and captures social crisis as a crisis of borders\, cartographic\, somatic and psychic. \nBorn and raised in Greece\, she studied in New York where she lived for more than twenty years and taught at NYU\, Vassar\, and CUNY. In 2008 she joined the University of the Peloponnese where she also founded the first in Greece field-based multimedia Program on Everyday Life and Culture. Her engagement with public/applied anthropology in both continents includes designing/organizing public interdisciplinary multimedia events\, publishing in the media\, and holding advisory positions at the Hellenic Ministry of Health on matters of mobile populations\, at the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization\, and at the Unesco National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-a-journey-through-border-spaces-of-the-everyday/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-xi-xv/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221129T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221129T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness is a particular way of paying attention. It is the mental faculty of purposefully bringing attention to one’s present moment experience. Practicing mindfulness can lead to: improved ability to focus\, increased patience and adaptability\, greater empathy and compassion\, and improved feelings of well-being. In this session we’ll review mindfulness basics and try a couple of short practices that you’ll be able to do on your own. \nMeg Corman (she/her) is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and has taught MBSR and mindfulness classes since 2012 locally and in the South Bay. She is currently teaching through Dignity Health in Santa Cruz and is also a Community Dharma Facilitator at Insight Santa Cruz\, a Buddhist meditation center. \nRegister by November 21st for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mindfulness/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221129T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T174550Z
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SUMMARY:Patti Smith: Songs & Stories\, A Book of Days
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome Patti Smith\, National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train\, back to town for a celebration of A Book of Days—her deeply moving and idiosyncratic visual book of days featuring more than 365 images and reflections. \n \nTickets include entry to the event and a copy of A Book of Days. \nThis special event will take place at The Rio Theatre\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz. \nIn 2018\, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next\, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250\, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids\, her radiator\, her boots\, and her Abyssinian cat\, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith’s world\, photographs of her daily coffee\, the books she’s reading\, the graves of beloved heroes–William Blake\, Dylan Thomas\, Sylvia Plath\, Simone Weil\, Albert Camus. Over time\, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape\, and more than a million followers responded to Smith’s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions\, devotions\, obsessions\, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls\, a mother’s keychain\, and a husband’s Mosrite guitar. Here\, too\, are photos from Smith’s archives of life on and off the road\, train stations\, obscure cafés\, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations\, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world. \nWith over 365 photographs taking you through a single year\, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet\, writer\, and performer. Hopeful\, elegiac\, playful–and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process—A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times\, an inspirational map of an artist’s life. \nPatti Smith is the author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids\, as well as M Train\, Year of the Monkey\, and numerous collections of poetry and essays. Her seminal album Horses has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. In 2005\, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres; she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007\, and was awarded the key to New York City in 2021. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patti-smith-songs-stories-a-book-of-days/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Maintaining Work-Life Balance in Academia
DESCRIPTION:Join Angel Dominguez for an interactive workshop and discussion of what it means to cultivate a healthy work-life balance. The interactive discussion will cover the importance of setting boundaries\, time management\, how technology can be your friend\, and why saying “no” doesn’t make you a bad person! \nAngel is a queer\, first-generation\, Latinx UCSC alumnus dedicated to supporting historically excluded groups of students during their time here in the redwoods as the GANAS graduate services counselor for UCSC. Angel holds an M.F.A. in writing and poetics from Naropa University and is the author of several books of poetry and prose. \nRegister by November 22nd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maintaining-work-life-balance-in-academia/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T121500
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
DESCRIPTION:“Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous\, if not persistent\, of these diagnoses is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not the only bad model of maternality that midcentury psychiatry discovered\, however; overstimulating mothers\, called in this study “hot mothers\,” were identified as equally problematic. From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature. Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this article attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The author argues that these newly codified diagnoses were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” \nHannah Zeavin is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press\, 2021) and at work on her second book\, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (MIT Press\, expected 2023). She teaches in the Departments of History and English at UC Berkeley. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-hot-and-cool-mothers-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T143000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual workshop with Katina Rogers\, “Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students\,” Nov. 30 at 1 p.m. on Zoom. Register here. \nThis workshop is presented by the Center for the Humanities at the University of California\, Merced and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-pathways-for-humanities-graduate-students/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
CREATED:20220921T222350Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn techniques to warm up\, deal with nerves\, craft your talk\, and deliver an engaging oration for any audience. This interactive workshop will take you through Bri’s trademarked W.A.V.E.® methods to get you ready to connect with an audience and keep them engaged. \nBri McWhorter is the founder and CEO of Activate to Captivate\, where she teaches communication techniques from an actor’s point of view. She specializes in public speaking\, scientific communications\, interview skills\, and interpersonal communications. She has taught workshops at Fortune 500 companies\, privately coached CEOs at nonprofits\, and led certificate programs at top universities. She is the creator of W.A.V.E.®\, a program where she teaches speakers how to overcome nerves\, use body language\, and rely on their voice to tell an engaging story. She has coached speakers for academic symposia at various institutions\, including UC Office of the President\, UC Irvine\, UC Santa Barbara\, and UC Santa Cruz. She has a Master of Fine Arts in acting from UC Irvine and a bachelor’s degree in theater and performance studies from UC Berkeley. \nRegister by November 23rd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-speaking/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T150000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
DESCRIPTION:In The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy\, Hannah Zeavin shows that\, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic\, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may be well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this talk recovers the early history of Freud’s real use of media in therapies over distance. \nZeavin reads epistolary and postal conventions in Freud’s moment\, intertwined with Freud’s own epistolary self-analysis (in correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess) and the unconventional treatment by correspondence of his only child patient\, the agoraphobic “Little Hans\,” in order to rethink the coincidental origins of psychoanalysis and teletherapy\, and to help us think through narratives of loss that attend current uses of technology to mediate therapy. \n\n \nHannah Zeavin is a scholar\, writer\, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis\, psychology\, and psychiatry)\, the history of technology\, feminist STS\, and media theory. She is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University in the Luddy School of Informatics. Additionally\, she is a visiting fellow at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference.\nZeavin’s first book\, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is now out from MIT Press\, with a Foreword by John Durham Peters. She is at work on her second book\, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (MIT Press\, under contract). Other academic work has appeared in or is forthcoming from differences: A Journal of Feminist Studies\, Technology and Culture\, American Imago\, Media\, Culture\, & Society\, and elsewhere. \n\n\nFree and open to the campus community and the public. This event is presented by the UCSC Center for World History
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-sigmund-freud-tele-analyst/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Conversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-dec-1/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Douglas Brinkley: Silent Spring Revolution
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution\, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973)\, on December 1 at the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. The book tells the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy\, Lyndon B. Johnson\, and Richard Nixon. Brinkley will be joined by State Senator John Laird for a question and answer session\, including questions from the audience. \n \nSeating will be first come\, first served. \nThe first 50 students in attendance will receive a free copy of Silent Spring Revolution. Student ID required. \nWith the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945\, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II\, a grim new epoch had arrived. During the early Cold War years\, the federal government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace\, but entire ecosystems were contaminated with radioactive materials. During the 1950s\, an unprecedented postwar economic boom took hold\, with America becoming the world’s leading hyperindustrial and military giant. But with this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die\, wilderness vanished\, the insecticide DDT poisoned ecosystems\, wildlife perished\, and chronic smog blighted major cities. \nIn Silent Spring Revolution\, Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson (a marine biologist and author)\, David Brower (director of the Sierra Club)\, Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate)\, Coretta Scott King (an antinuclear activist)\, Stewart Udall (the secretary of the interior)\, William O. Douglas (Supreme Court justice)\, Cesar Chavez (a labor organizer)\, and other crusaders are profiled with verve and insight. \nCarson’s book Silent Spring\, published in 1962\, depicted how detrimental DDT was to living creatures. The exposé launched an ecological revolution that inspired such landmark legislation as the Wilderness Act (1964)\, the Clean Air Acts (1963 and 1970)\, and the Endangered Species Acts (1966\, 1969\, and 1973). In intimate detail\, Brinkley extrapolates on such epic events as the Donora (Pennsylvania) smog incident\, JFK’s Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty\, Great Lakes preservation\, the Santa Barbara oil spill\, and the first Earth Day. \nWith the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion\, Douglas Brinkley’s meticulously researched and deftly written Silent Spring Revolution reminds us that a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can save the planet from ruin. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation. \n  \nDouglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University\, presidential historian for the New-York Historical Society\, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library\, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” He is the recipient of such distinguished environmental leadership prizes as the Frances K. Hutchison Medal (Garden Club of America)\, Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks (National Parks Conservation Association)\, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lifetime Heritage Award. His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina\, New Orleans\, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume\, annotated Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He lives in Austin\, Texas\, with his wife and three children. \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and farm entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 18th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62874/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika
DESCRIPTION:Argyro Katsika\, UC Santa Barbara \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T150000
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SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis Memorial Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the life of Miriam Ellis\, lecturer emerita of French\, fellow of Cowell College\, and founder of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP). The memorial will be held at Stevenson Event Center (SEC)\, where audiences have long enjoyed and will continue to enjoy performances of the MEIP. Miriam’s irrepressible joy touched the lives of many people at the university\, in Santa Cruz\, and beyond. The purpose of the Memorial is to bring us all together to reminisce\, reflect\, and share stories. As Miriam may have said\, quoting Moliere\, “We die only once\, and for such a long time.” If you are inclined to wear your favorite special hat to the event\, please do so in homage to our spirited and brilliant friend. \nParking attendants will be in the lower lot of Stevenson. Overflow parking will be at Merrill. Carpooling is encouraged. A shuttle will help guests will mobility challenges climb the hill to SEC. If you have questions or concerns\, please contact the event organizer\, Faye Crosby\, at fjcrosby@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62651/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T140000
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SUMMARY:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Chap. 17-End)
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-necromancies-with-professor-renee-fox-discussion-of-dracula-chap-17-end/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221205T120000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Faculty and Graduate Student Grants Session with UCHRI
DESCRIPTION:Interested in faculty & graduate student funding opportunities from the UC Humanities Research Institute and want to know more about the advisory committee selection process? Join UCHRI Interim Director Julia Lupton\, Associate Director Kelly Anne Brown\, and Research Grants Manager Sara Černe for a grants presentation and Q&A. This year\, UCHRI is offering up to $25\,000 grants for collaborative research projects\, support for projects connected to its theme of Refuge and Its Refusals\, and continuing support for the UC-wide Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship. \nProspective PIs who would like to talk through a new or existing project are invited to schedule a separate 20-minute Individual Faculty Consultation with UCHRI. Please email Connie Zheng\, THI’s 2022-2023 Research and Development GSR\, at conniezheng@ucsc.edu to schedule and appointment \n  \nThis workshop is sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, Arts Research Institute\, the Office of Foundation Relations\, and the Office of Research Development.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/faculty-and-graduate-student-grants-session-with-uchri/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T140000
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SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230109T173000
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SUMMARY:Race\, Violence\, and Form in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
DESCRIPTION:This symposium will bring together invited speakers from the US and Ireland to examine how recent sea changes in the field of Victorian studies—particularly its embrace of critical race studies\, strategic presentism\, and new formalism—create space to rethink both Ireland’s place in 19th-century British literary studies and the pressures Irish literature and its contemporary reverberations exert on the field’s forms of expansion. The presentations will all assert the need to resituate Ireland within the networks of aesthetic innovation\, economic experimentation\, and identity politics that circulated freely between England\, Ireland\, and America in the 19th century. Yet this re-contextualization necessarily moves in both directions\, showing not only how our understanding of Irish literature and culture changes when we consider it as part of a larger constellation of Victorian phenomena\, but also how our understanding of Victorian culture changes when we must accommodate Ireland as an integral part of its intellectual networks. In the interest of recent calls to unsettle the geographical\, racial\, and periodized confines of what constitutes “Victorian\,” as well as to unmoor Victorian studies from its long reliance on Anglocentric historicist methodologies\, this symposium challenges Ireland’s long history in the colonial margins of the field\, arguing instead that it plays an essential role in the expansion and revitalization of Victorian studies in the 21st century. \nFull symposium schedule at: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/race-violence-form-in-19c-ireland.html \nMany thanks to the UC Santa Cruz Literature Department\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Humanities Institute at UCSC\, and the Dickens Project for sponsoring this event.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/race-violence-and-form-in-nineteenth-century-ireland/
LOCATION:Dream Inn Santa Cruz\, 175 W Cliff Dr\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230113T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230113T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Uri Mor\, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel\, UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Uri Mor\, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T133000
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SUMMARY:Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
DESCRIPTION:According to premodern elites\, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages\, sustenance\, more festival days\, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by premodern sumptuary laws\, focusing on luxury as a class of things. I focus on the act of luxuriating instead\, drawing out its embodied\, affective\, and tactical dimensions as a “structure of feeling.” I argue that a focus on luxuriating opens our thought to the political potential in the physical\, sensory\, and lived experience of the poor as they lay claim to enjoyment and abundance. \n \nDean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics\, currently working on a book manuscript Luxuriating in Democracy\, Abundance\, and the Enjoyment of Bodies Politic. He is the author of Appeals to Interest: Language and the Shaping of Political Agency and the editor of and contributor to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics\, Justice\, and Action. His other writings have appeared in journals including Political Theory\, Theory and Event\, Political Research Quarterly\, The New Political Science\, and The Arrow. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dean-mathiowetz-luxuriating-as-a-political-structure-of-feeling/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T203000
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SUMMARY:Jane Smiley - A Dangerous Business
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850’s\, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says\, “The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel\, A Dangerous Business\, is so outstanding. Her sentences are sublime.” This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n \n“A remarkable story of the California gold rush and a pair of sex worker sleuths . . . The vivid historical details and vibrant characters bring Smiley’s setting to glorious life. This seductive entertainment is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly \nMonterey\, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight\, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life\, at least at first. The madam\, Mrs. Parks\, is kind\, the men are (relatively) well behaved\, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town\, a darkness descends that she can’t resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean\, and inspired by her reading\, especially by Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin\, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer\, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. \nEliza and Jean are determined not just to survive\, but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West–a bewitching combination of beauty and danger–as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says\, Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business\, but between you and me\, being a woman is a dangerous business\, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise … \nJane Smiley is the author of numerous novels\, including A Thousand Acres\, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck\, Early Warning\, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-smiley-a-dangerous-business/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea\, energized by the sun\, shaped by the forces of fog and fire\, and influenced by the actions of people. \n“We know of no other place in the world where land and sea connect in such an extraordinary way.”    –Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom \nMonterey Bay is the hottest hot spot for biodiversity in all of North America\, according to The Nature Conservancy. It is a place of giants\, from redwood forests on land to forests of kelp offshore. Monterey Bay supports iconic wildlife from secretive mountain lions to majestic blue whales. All survive in a region where far-flung migrants mix with rare local species that live nowhere else in the world. \nThis exhibition brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. That richness is due to a unique mix of physical features and microclimates\, shaped by the powerful influence of the ocean—and by the actions of people. After the Gold Rush began\, a great demand for natural resources stripped the land of trees and depleted the sea of marine mammals and fish. But that ecological collapse has been reversed in our time. \nBay of Life celebrates a remarkable recovery which shows that damaged ecosystems can be restored when people care and take action together. That may offer a model for other places at a time when we need such stories of hope as we face new challenges of resource stewardship\, habitat connectivity\, and impacts from climate change. \nThis exhibition will run from January 19–April 30\, 2023 and is co-sponsored by Bay Photo Lab and the Humanities Institute. \nFor full exhibition information please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/bay-of-life \nProject Core Collaborators: Land Trust of Santa Cruz County\, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History\, Seymour Marine Discovery Center\, Watsonville Wetlands Watch \nHeader Image: Humpback Whales\, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary\, photo by Frans Lanting.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bay-of-life-from-wind-to-whales-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Jaime Cortez
DESCRIPTION:Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville\, California\, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction\, essays\, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children” (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press)\, “No Straight Lines\,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited 2012 by Justin Hall for Fantagraphics Press)\, “Street Art San Francisco” (edited 2009 by Annice Jacoby for Abrams Press)\, and “Infinite Cities\,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco (edited 2010 by Rebecca Solnit for UC Berkeley Press). He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003. \nCortez often combines humor and tragedy to tell stories of resilient survivors who exist on the margins of the economy\, the law\, and social acceptability. “Gordo” is Jaime’s debut collection of short stories. Black Cat\, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Press\, is the publisher of the book. \nCortez spent his early years in San Juan Bautista and Watsonville\, two California farm towns where the stories are set. He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania\, and his fine art MFA at UC Berkeley. His website is www.jaimecortez.org. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jaime-cortez/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000
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SUMMARY:Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
DESCRIPTION:“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Divya Cherian\, Princeton University
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/divya-cherian-caste-and-time-notes-from-early-modern-india/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T150000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis
DESCRIPTION:Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-fernanda-ferreira-uc-davis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T153000
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SUMMARY:Liora R. Halperin - The Oldest Guard: Landowners\, Local Memory\, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
DESCRIPTION:Professor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream\, but was later integrated\, albeit ambivalently\, into the Zionist narrative of settlement as the First Aliyah. Treating the First Aliyah as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect\, and drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies\, she considers how private agriculturalists and their advocates forged the First Aliyah past as a model of private ownership\, political moderature\, and harmonius relations with hired rural Palestinian labor. In so doing\, she sheds light on the politics and erasures of Zionist celebrations of “firstness.” \n \nLiora R. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her recent book is The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021). She is also the author of Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015). \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liora-r-halperin-the-oldest-guard-landowners-local-memory-and-the-making-of-the-zionist-settler-past/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T130000
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-xvi-xx/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T153000
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SUMMARY:Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book\, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism\, Left culturalism\, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. Concrete Utopianism makes a bold case for embracing what Wilder calls a politics of the possible-impossible. \nAttentive to the non-identical character of places\, periods\, and subjects\, insisting that axes of political alignment and contestation are neither self-evident nor unchanging\, reworking Lenin’s call to “transform the imperial war into a civil war\,” he invites Left thinkers see beyond inherited distinctions between here and there\, now and then\, us and them. Guided by the spirit of Marx’s call for revolutionaries to draw their poetry from a future they cannot fathom yet must nevertheless invent\, he calls for practices of anticipation that envision and enact\, call for and call forth\, seemingly impossible ways of being together. \nFormat: In-person in Hum1 Room 420 & Zoom\nZoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98082358956?pwd=b2kxZEgvSU9wNGtlaEROTDdKQjJqQT09#success  \nGary Wilder is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. He has a joint degree in Anthropology and History from the University of Chicago and works on the French empire\, colonial states\, historical anthropology and social/political theory\, with a focus on western Africa\, the Antilles\, and Europe. He is the author of Freedom Time. Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press Durham and London 2015). \nPresented by the History of Consciousness Department. To download the excerpts in discussion and for information on upcoming lectures\, please visit The History of Consciousness website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/concrete-utopianism-with-gary-wilder/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T133000
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SUMMARY:Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935\, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of multinaturalism contests colonial conceptions of nature as well as the ideas about language that follow on colonial nature. Using the power of puns\, metaphors\, rhyme\, and performance\, Anansi and other insect avatars convert colonial nature into abolition ecologies. More broadly\, the constellation of problems and powers associated with West Indian bugs (imperceptibility\, smallness\, shapeshifting\, co-metabolism\, environmental change)\, informs a situated decolonial knowledge inspired by insects’ navigation of their environments. \nMonique Allewaert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works at the intersections of eighteenth and nineteenth-century hemispheric American colonialisms\, the environmental humanities\, literary and cultural studies\, and science studies. She is the author of Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations\, Personhood\, and Colonialism in the American Tropics (2013). Her current book project Luminescence follows insect avatars through eighteenth-century Caribbean natural history\, story\, riddles\, song\, and poetry to elaborate counter-plantation knowledges and aesthetics.  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/monique-allewaert-ground-has-eye-anansi-and-animist-multinaturalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T183000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Morton - Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
DESCRIPTION:Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class\, low-income\, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work\, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds\, Jennifer Morton looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends\, the severed connections with former communities\, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to accomplish their educational goals. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\, and will take place at the University Center\, Bhojwani Room on Wednesday\, January 25\, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm with a reception to follow from 5:30-6:30pm. \n \nIn-Person attendance \n \nVirtual attendance \nJennifer Morton is Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of research are philosophy of action\, moral philosophy\, philosophy of education\, and political philosophy\, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic\, Inside Higher Education\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Nation\, New York Daily News\, Times Higher Education\, Princeton Alumni Weekly\, Public Books \, and Vox. Her book Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press\, 2020) was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges\, and Universities. \nJody Greene is the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning\, as well as Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. They have served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness at UCSC. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-morton-moving-up-without-losing-your-way/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T203000
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SUMMARY:Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots
DESCRIPTION:January 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers. \nThis Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tobera-project-talk-story-1930-anti-filipino-watsonville-race-riots/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Wordpress Website Design
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. Get design tips from Teresa and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nTeresa Hardy is the founder of New Media-Designs\, an online marketing agency specializing in solutions for small and medium technology companies. She has over 30 years of experience in engineering and marketing in high tech companies and has worked as a web developer and multimedia artist since 2005. She holds a B.S. in engineering and a master’s in multimedia arts. Her current work focuses on HTML\, CSS\, JavaScript\, PHP\, WordPress\, and overall online find-ability (SEO and SMM) for clients. Ms. Hardy has taught web design\, branding\, usability\, gaming\, and web development at several universities in the San Francisco Bay area and is the current program chair of Web Development Specialization at UCSC Extension Silicon Valley. \nRegister for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T133000
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SUMMARY:Kaushik Sunder Rajan Reading Group - Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome\, as a residential scholar\, Kaushik Sunder Rajan\, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine\, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life\, published by Duke in 2006\, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book\, Pharmocracy: Knowledge\, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke\, 2017)\, elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India. \nProfessor Rajan will lead a reading group focused on his most recent book\, Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis. We’ll be reading the Introduction and Chapter 3. Email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for a copy of the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine-kaushik-sunder-rajan-reading-group/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T133000
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SUMMARY:Teach English in Spain
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Spanish Studies & Consulate of Spain in San Francisco is pleased to present Enrique Asorey Brey\, Spanish Consul in San Francisco\, who will be speaking on the North American Language and Culture Program in Spain (NALCAP 2023-2024). Light refreshments will be provided. \nOrganized by: Spanish Studies\, UC Santa Cruz Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Consulado General de España en San Francisco
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-english-in-spain/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T133000
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SUMMARY:Linda Garber – The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a guided tour of the pleasures and perils of lesbian historical fiction\, as Linda Garber (author of Novel Approaches to Lesbian History) introduces the thrilling and heart-wrenching adventures\, trenchant theoretical insights\, and critical political shortcomings of novels that establish a historical footing for contemporary lesbian identity in the face of a problematic\, mostly silent\, archive. She’ll cover genres ranging from westerns (Tomboys and Indians) and pirate tales (Unsafe Seas for Women) to the postmodern (Haunting the Archives) and the erotic (Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lesbian Sex)\, while calling for an intersectional\, trans-inclusive lesbian literature and history. \n Linda Garber is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University\, where she teaches queer literature and film\, and feminist and queer theory. Her book Novel Approaches to Lesbian History was published by Palgrave in 2021 and is now available in paperback. Her earlier books include Identity Poetics: Race\, Class\, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory and the anthology Tilting the Tower: Lesbians / Teaching / Queer Subjects. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linda-garber-the-present-in-our-past-reading-lesbian-historical-fiction/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T173000
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SUMMARY:Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases\, Life Histories\, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome\, as a residential scholar\, Kaushik Sunder Rajan\, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine\, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life\, published by Duke in 2006\, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book\, Pharmocracy: Knowledge\, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke\, 2017)\, elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India. \nProfessor Rajan will give a talk on his ongoing research project on South Africa\, which concerns the ways in which a politics of health in South Africa plays out through the law\, consequent to the guarantee of a fundamental right to health in the South African Constitution. This talk is the presentation of an emergent research trajectory. Drawing upon an imaginary of “multisituated” research design and practice\, I elaborate the (often contingent and serendipitous) development of my recent work in South Africa\, which includes a research project on health and constitutionalism and a teaching- and performance-based collaboration on the politics of breath. I am still wrestling with how to structure both\, how they come together and diverge\, their different conceptual modalities and political stakes. This includes a consideration of the stakes of legal archival research and life-history interviews in the context of contemporary and emergent research and political situations\, as well as of thinking questions of ethnographic form in concert with others who are invested in considerations of literary or musical form. How to think about transformations of research practice in the context of unsettled and unresolved macro-political transformations in uncertain and fragile times? Why might it matter? \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethnographic-trans-formations-cases-life-histories-and-other-entanglements-of-emergent-research/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House\, 2020)\, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021\, her chapbook Bone House was published by Bull City Press. Her most recent book is Gods of Want (One World/Random House\, 2022). Her next books are a novel titled Organ Meats (One World) and a novella titled Cecilia (Coffee House Press). She loves folklore\, vampire literature\, and birdwatching in her home state of California.\n \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230203T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230203T150000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek\, UC San Diego \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T200000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
DESCRIPTION:For many people\, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long\, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things\, they are complex infrastructures where people\, the built and natural environments\, and different kinds of networks come together. Airports are also sites of accumulated power in a given region. Looking at the history of an airport\, then\, can provide a airport useful lens for examining some of the complex\, interconnected forces that have influenced the development of its region over time. Exploring that history can also help us understand how differently positioned people in that place have abided\, resisted\, and otherwise negotiated the powerful forces that have shaped their lives. In this talk\, Eric Porter will discuss San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as a site whose history reveals important perspectives on a wide range of phenomena that have helped to make the Bay Area. Along the way he will read excerpts from his new book\, A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. \n \nOrder A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport online and save 30%. Use source code SAVE30 at checkout. \nEric Porter is Professor of History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also affiliated with the Music and Latin American and Latina/o Studies departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history\, US cultural and urban history\, and jazz and improvisation studies. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-can-we-learn-from-the-airport-with-professor-eric-porter/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T120000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grad Slam Presentation Prep: Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:This brief workshop provides an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking\, including managing anxiety\, key delivery techniques\, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches\, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations.  It will include some interactive personalized exercises. If you have your grad slam talk and one optional slide ready to practice for a preliminary divisional round\, February 13-17\, you may practice your talk (with your optional one PowerPoint slide) for feedback from Catherine Carlstroem at either workshop. If attending in person\, bring your laptop to join the Zoom meeting to share your slide via screen share\, if you have a slide. \nUCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching\, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course. \nRegister for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary lunch provided to in-person attendees. There is an additional session on the same day from 2:00-4:00 PM\, accessible in person at the Graduate Commons Fireside Lounge or via Zoom. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grad-slam-presentation-prep-public-speaking/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T133000
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SUMMARY:Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
DESCRIPTION:How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City’s Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city\, with no closure of Rikers in sight? The tragic story of recent jail reform efforts in New York City is at once novel\, and indicative of broader trends in “humanitarian” jail reform\, growing activism big big philanthropy in the supposed reform of mass incarceration\, and the evolution of non-profit organizations promoting the extension of the carceral state — all conducted under the auspices of “social justice.” Tracing the contours of this new moment of carceral boosterism\, Dr. Jarrod Shanahan will present on a work in progress\, Skyscraper Jails\, co-authored with criminal justice scholar Dr. Zhandarka Kurti. This work draws from extensive archival research\, years of collaborative scholarship\, and participation in the campaign against the new jails. \nJarrod Shanahan is an activist-scholar and assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University in University Park\, IL. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso\, 2022)\, co-author with Zhandarka Kurti of States of Incarceration: Rebellion\, Reform\, and America’s Punishment System (Field Notes/Reaktion\, 2022)\, and an editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity (Verso\, 2022)\, a Noel Ignatiev reader. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jarrod-shanahan-skyscraper-jails/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:At the midpoint of World War II\, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book\, War of Shadows\, historian and alumnus Gershom Gorenberg (Kresge ’76\, Religious Studies) will reveal the espionage affair that led to the British victory against Rommel at El Alamein – turning the tide of the war and preventing the mass murder of the Jews of Egypt\, Palestine and the rest of the Middle East. \n \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 1\, 2023. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and made possible by the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gershom-gorenberg-the-secret-war-against-the-nazis-for-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Carole McGranahan\, "Drafting Stages"
DESCRIPTION:Join UCSC’s Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nIn conversation with Carole McGranahan\, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet\, the CIA\, and Memories of a Forgotten War (2010)\, co-editor of Imperial Formations (2007) and Ethnographers of U.S. Empire (2018)\, and editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (2020). \nGraduate students from all disciplines are welcome! \nPlease register here. \nThis event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-carole-mcgranahan-drafting-stages/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
CREATED:20220912T205811Z
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SUMMARY:Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh\, Third World Solidarity\, and the Global Politics of Feminism
DESCRIPTION:“Bangladesh\, Third World Solidarity\, and the Global Politics of Feminism” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Elora Shehebuddin\, UC Berkeley
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elora-shehebuddin-bangladesh-third-world-solidarity-and-the-global-politics-of-feminism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
CREATED:20221209T221616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T221616Z
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SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly - A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
DESCRIPTION:“Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture\, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve\, how do we define the public and its good\, and how does and how might our study contribute to this project? Thinking critically about the tradition of research on the ancient Mediterranean\, Joy’s own field\, she makes the case for a planetary frame for humanistic study whose fields of activity are the global and the local. This frame resolves an intractable tension in academia today\, where institutions proudly recruit students and faculty from all over the world but retain disciplinary divisions that reflect the national borders and imperial power map of two centuries ago. \n \nIn-person attendance\nThe lecture will begin promptly at 4:00 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception in the Rotunda. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m \n \nVirtual attendance \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Division and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joy-connolly-a-connected-planet-scholarship-for-the-global-good/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
DESCRIPTION:Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship\, including fellowships\, grants\, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She will also discuss recent and emerging scholarly directions\, including digital publications\, collaborative research\, translation\, and publicly engaged work. \n \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the UCSC Arts Research Institute\, the UCSC Office of Foundation Relations\, and the UCSC Office of Research Development
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acls-workshop-with-joy-connolly/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T140000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! \nAndrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, master’s in English literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder\, and an all but dissertation in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College\, where she teaches English. Andrea is the director of The Writing Center and of its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, one of the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives of the Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) Graduate Pathways program (Activity 6). Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature\, and her work is deeply invested in social justice. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-psychology-of-writing-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Amelia Glaser - Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine\, 1929
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1929\, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events\, which began with protests in Jerusalem\, divided the world-wide Jewish Left into those who sympathized with the Arabs and those who condemned the violence as a new manifestation of the east European anti-Jewish pogrom. In this talk\, Amelia Glaser will discuss how these events echoed in the transnational community of Yiddish poets\, and will analyze poetry written in support of each side. The Yiddish poetry devoted to the clashes in Palestine a century ago help to illuminate how complex ideologies have long defined identity and community. \nAmelia Glaser is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego\, where she holds the Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern U.P.\, 2012) and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard UP\, 2020). She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford U.P.\, 2015) and\, with Steven Lee\, Comintern Aesthetics (U. Toronto Press\, 2020). She is also a translator from\, primarily\, Yiddish\, Ukrainian\, and Russian. She is currently writing about contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amelia-glaser-angry-winds-jewish-leftists-and-the-challenge-of-palestine-192/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players\,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal of reason under the pretext of law\, Ray makes an appeal on behalf of the visual image as a critique of reason rather than its lure. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies. \nKeya Ganguly is Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity (2001) and Cinema\, Emergence\, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010). She served as Senior Editor of Cultural Critique from 1998-2010\, and her essays have appeared in Cultural Studies\, New Formations\, Race and Class\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, and History of the Present. Recent and forthcoming essays have explored Mahasweta Devi’s radical politics\, the aesthetics of exile\, and world cinema in dialectical perspective. She is currently writing a book on the revolutionary utopianism of the early Indian nationalist\, Aurobindo Ghose\, entitled Political Metaphysics. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/keya-ganguly-reason-and-the-image-on-satyajit-rays-shatranj-ke-khilari-the-chess-players/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Identity\, Belonging\, and Community
DESCRIPTION:Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a workshop and discussion on identity\, belonging\, and community. All grads welcome! \nFrom left to right – Lorato Anderson\, Marilia Kaisar\, Radhika Prasad\nLorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects\, as well as providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. Lorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences; her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics\, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice\, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies\, in her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \nMarilia Kaisar (Lead Mentor – Arts) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Pratt Institute and a Diploma in Architecture Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her experimental practice uses affect theory and a feminist perspective to explore intersections of media\, technology\, and desire\, using the body as the nexus point. Currently working on her dissertation titled “F*cking with the Virtual”. \nRadhika Prasad (Lead Mentor – Humanities) “I’m a sixth year PhD candidate in the Literature department with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. My academic interests include South Asian literature and history\, translation studies\, language politics\, and feminisms in the Global South. As a sixth year international student and a woman of color\, I have found the university to be a space of immense possibility\, but also great inequity. Peer mentorship programs are an important step towards bridging the knowledge gap\, and making universities\, classrooms\, graduate programs\, and research into more equitable spaces\, and I am excited to contribute to this one.” \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-identity-belonging-and-community/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230219
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Aurora Workshop - Gramsci: Southern Questions
DESCRIPTION:“The Aurora Workshop – Gramsci: Southern Questions” will take place Friday\, February 17th from 3-5pm (PST) and Saturday\, February 18th from 9am-3pm (PST). This workshop will be in person in Humanities 2\, Room 259 and virtual (Zoom: 99170004783 PW: gramsci). Please click here to view the full schedule. \nFriday\, February 17th from 3:00-5:00pm (PST)\nKeynote presentation: Gramsci as a Typical Interwar Communist: The Vernacular and the War Over Language\nTimothy Brennan\nUniversity of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\nCultural Studies & Comparative Literature \nSaturday\, February 18th from 9:00am-3:00 pm (PST)\nGramsci: Southern Questions Workshop \nPanels and Roundtable including:\nMichael Denning\nColleen Lye\nKeya Ganguly\nAditya Bahl\nChris Connery\nMassimiliano Tomba\nJuned Shaikh\nG. S. Sahota
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aurora-workshop-gramsci-southern-questions/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
CREATED:20230209T180312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T191158Z
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SUMMARY:What is Life? Conference
DESCRIPTION:The conference addresses problems and inconsistencies in modern definitions of life by appealing to explicit and implicit definitions of life offered in ancient texts. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent as astrobiologists come closer to being able to detect biosignatures or signs of life on extrasolar planets\, since the forms of life that exist on these planets may not fit within definitions of life generated by biologists for studying life on Earth. We think that ancient answers to this definitional problem may suggest fruitful directions in which contemporary\, operating definitions of life could be expanded. Participants include experts on a wide array of ancient cultures whose work addresses concepts of life from a range of theoretical perspectives; we pay particular attention to speakers whose work addresses gendered and racialized views of life in antiquity. We also engage modernist scholars whose work has critiqued contemporary definitions of life. Finally—and most essentially—the conference is coordinated with UCSC’s astrobiology initiative and includes several speakers from scientific fields who can address the role of definitions in the search for extraterrestrial life. \nKeynote: Carol Cleland\, Philosophy (University of Colorado Boulder) \nAlso featuring: \n\nRuth Murray-Clay\, Planetary Science (UC Santa Cruz)\nFrancesca Spiegel\, Greek literature/medicine\nMartin Devecka\, Cultural history/Central Asia (UC Santa Cruz)\nMichael Wong\, Astrobiology (Carnegie Institution for Science’s Earth & Planets Laboratory)\nAmit Shilo\, Greek literature and political theory (UC Santa Barbara)\nZac Zimmer\, Latin American Literature and speculative fiction (UC Santa Cruz)\nMario Telo\, Greek literature (UC Berkeley)\nTejas Aralere\, Ancient science/Sanskrit (UC Santa Barbara)\nAlex Purves\, Greek literature (UCLA)\nDavid Shorter\, World Arts/Dance/Anthropology (UCLA)\nLaurence Totelin\, Ancient science/technology/medicine ( Cardiff University)\nAnna Freidin Roman cultural history (University of Michigan)\nGina Konstantopoulos\, Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies (UCLA)\nJames Porter Ancient literature and philosophy (UC Berkeley)\nGiulia Maria Chesi Greek literature/history of technology\nMark Csikszentmihalyi\, East Asian Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)\nKaren ni Mheallaigh\, Ancient science/fiction (John Hopkins Univeristy)\nColin Webster\, Greek medicine (UC Davis)\nNatalie Batalha\, Astrobiology (UC Santa Cruz)\nMaria Gerolemou\, Greek Literature/History of technology  (University of Exeter)\nStuart Bartlett\, OOL and exoplanets (Cal Tech)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-is-life-conference/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230221T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230221T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
CREATED:20230204T044242Z
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SUMMARY:Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
DESCRIPTION:Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christina-heatherton-making-internationalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
CREATED:20230108T012635Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Event co-sponsored with Kresge College\, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. \nNew online writing platforms\, like Wattpad\, are massively popular (100 million registered users upload ~300\,000 stories per day)\, and with their focus on user generated content and open access\, promise to democratize contemporary cultural production. This talk explores how such platforms represent and accommodate Blackness\, specifically examining the rise of a new genre category of writing: the #BLM story\, over the past five years. Using a mixture of critical and computational methods\, and drawing from critical race theory and platform studies\, I ask: what textual features define this story\, how do such features evolve over time\, and how does this story differ from previous iterations of racial protest literature? Also: are such stories able to thrive on such platforms – what is their relationship to platform capitalism? \nRichard Jean So is associate professor of English and digital humanities at McGill University. He focuses on computational and data-driven approaches to contemporary literature and culture\, with a particular interest in race and inequality. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction\, and he is at work on a new project called Fast Culture\, Slow Justice: Race and Writing in the Platform Age. He has published in both academic journals like Critical Inquiry and PMLA and popular periodicals\, such as The New York Times and The Atlantic. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/richard-jean-so-how-blm-became-a-story-black-fiction-in-the-age-of-platform-capitalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Accessing Campus Resources
DESCRIPTION:Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS\, Slug Support\, Basic Needs\, the Restorative Justice Program\, and OMBUDS will be there to share information and answer questions. All grads are welcome and encouraged to attend! \nFood provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives. \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-accessing-campus-resources/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Shruti Swamy
DESCRIPTION:Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize\, the LA Times First Fiction Award\, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her novel\, The Archer\, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize\, and won the California Book Award for fiction. The winner of two O. Henry Awards\, her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeny’s\, AFAR Magazine\, and the New York Times. \nShe is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, A Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University\, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, the San Francisco Arts Council\, and Vassar College. She is a Kundiman Fiction Fellow\, and lives in San Francisco. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-shruti-swamy/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia\, the Middle East\, and North Africa Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Participants: Dolly Kikon\, Nour Joudan\, Aomar Boum\, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa\, R. Benedito Ferrao\, Maisnam Arnapal\, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh \nThe Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa Cruz from February 24-25\, 2023. Please note that this workshop is open to faculty and graduate students only. This workshop is presented by the UCSC Center for South Asian Studies in collaboration with the Center for Middle East and North Africa. Registration required.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geographies-of-and-the-indigenous-south-asia-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
DESCRIPTION:Junko Ito & Armin Mester\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-junko-ito-armin-mester/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160146
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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feb_26_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T170000
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SUMMARY:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race\, Life and Language. \nThis event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM\, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the event. \nJohn R. Rickford  is a member of the National Academy of Science\, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and Fellow\, the British Academy. \n  \n  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Linguistics\, and the Stevenson Programs Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-r-rickford-stevenson-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
LOCATION:Stevenson College Library\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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